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Workshop Instructors 2024
Laura Doyle
Laura Doyle is a past producer of the Natural Fiber Fair for many years. She has taught basket weaving and wild crafting plants to hundreds of people over the past 20+ years. Creating unique baskets from wild-crafted local plants, Laura shares her enthusiasm for weaving and harvesting. Currently, teaching classes throughout Humboldt County and Northern California. She is also part of Moonstone Midwives and you can follow her on her podcast: askMidwife707
Laura is teaching the 2024 workshop: Appalachian Style Basketry
Kira Dulaney
Kira Dulaney has been teaching fiber arts classes since 2002 and travels across the country. Kira’s teaching focuses on providing valuable information in a stress-free environment and supporting students through the learning process. Kira designs knitting and crochet patterns and kits that are interesting to make and easy to wear.
@kirakdesigns on Instagram and Ravelry; @kiradulaney on YouTube; http://www.facebook.com/kirakdesigns
Kira is teaching the 2024 workshop: Visible Mending with Speedweve Looms and Embroidery
Crystal Estelle
Color-Texture-Fiber; themes of Crystal’s life. She believes crafting with fiber should be approached with the mindset of creating heirloom quality goods. Owner of former Boll Weaver Yarns, Crystal weaves together her vast experiences teaching spinning, weaving, colorwork, dyeing and knitting so her students can learn the skills to create heirloom goods.
Crystal is teaching the 2024 workshop: Foundation of Handspinning-A Balanced Yarn
Rima Greer
Rima began sewing at age 6, She studied handweaving with Anna Zinsmeister, Pattern Drafting at Otis College of the Arts in Los Angeles, and shoe making with Prescott & Mackay of London. Rima was the costume designer and builder for Campanile, a Musical Percussion Theatre show which toured throughout the US, Canada, and Asia. In 2006, Rima moved to Eureka from Los Angeles, and in 2009 she opened Eureka Fabrics, where she sells high quality natural fiber fabrics, teaches sewing and pattern drafting, sews her textile creations, and is having the time of her life.
https://eurekafabrics.com/
www.facebook.com/eurekafabrics
www.instagram.com/eurekafabrics
www.youtube.com/eurekafabrics
Rima is teaching the 2024 workshop: Needle Tatting Lace - Make Fabulous Lace and Jewelry
Linda Hartshorn
Linda Hartshorn is a weaver and dyer known for lively color and dyework in her handwoven textiles. Linda taught workshops nationwide for twenty years before retiring to work exclusively in our local area. She teaches a weaving class at the Ink People Center for the Arts in Eureka and weaves and dyes at her home in Bayside.
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LindaHartshornWeavingandDyeing
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/indigoweaver
Website: http://www.lindahartshorn.com
Linda is teaching two 2024 workshops: Painted Skeins and Warps and Natural Colors to Dye For
Sarah Starck
Sarah Starck has been teaching needle felting for 2 decades. She began her passion for fiber craft when she was homeschooling her young son. Years later, she started a local art collective on the Avenue of the Giants in Miranda where she offered fiber workshops to kids and adults alike.
Instagram @funfeltfriends and @sohumartcollective
Sarah is teaching the 2024 workshop: Needle Felted Penguin
Tracy Shapiro
Tracy is a traditional fiber artist, historian, and teacher with a passion for exploring little-known folk and fiber arts. Along with studying with traditional artists, she continues her own research so that she can bring these crafts and the cultures that created them to life to share with others.
redwoodcoastartsandcrafts@gmail.com
Tracy is teaching two 2024 workshops: Wild Irish Roses- An Introduction to 3 Dimensional Irish Crochet and Bring on the Bling-Introduction to Beaded Crochet
Laura Steinberg
Laura’s grandmother taught her to crochet and knit at a young age, instilling a life long love of the world of creative arts.
She is fascinated by the process of turning simple fibers into functional and wearable art. Laura also loves sharing her knowledge and helping others develop their skills and passions in the fiber arts
She currently teaches crochet classes at Yarn in Eureka, CA .
etsy.com/shop/Longstorydesigns
Laura is teaching the 2024 workshop: Learn to Crochet for Beginners – Fingerless Gloves
Sunni Scrivner
Sunni is the owner of Yarn in Eureka, California, a local yarn store where she offers classes in knitting, needle felting and crochet. She has been teaching knitting for more than 20 years and is known for her patience and ability to explain new techniques clearly and in multiple ways for different types of learners. Before teaching knitting, Sunni taught theatre classes to adults and children for many years. In addition to owning Yarn, Sunni is also a knitting pattern designer, founder of the Have A Ball Fall Crawl, Treasurer of The National Needle Arts Association and owner and dyer with Tributary Yarns.
@yarnfun2840
facebook.com/yarnfun
Sunni is teaching the 2024 workshop: Slip Stitches with a Focus on Mosaic Knitting